What is universal love? Is it the same as unconditional love or is unconditional love a subcategory of universal love?
It is my, and many others, observation that love is something experienced by most of humanity and yet it remains mostly misunderstood. It’s interesting. Everyone knows what it is, but few really know it or understand it in a deep way.
I think this is because most understand love in emotional terms only. And for the most part emotional love is entangled in unconscious material from out past.
Universal love is conscious and loving at the same time. It is also known as universal consciousness or cosmic consciousness. Universal love is a unification of all aspects of Essence. When you experience universal love you understand the action of love. – A.H. Almaas
This is a pretty wild idea, especially if you understand what Almaas means when he refers to conscious and Essence. Don’t misunderstand his meaning of conscious with getting up in the morning and having your eyes open.
Equating universal love with universal consciousness and cosmic consciousness means this is much more than just expanding the space love inhabits. Universal love then not only exists everywhere and at every time, but is also the very consciousness that underlies all existence.
Which means it is more fundamental and preexists emotional love which has evolutionary history. What is love then, if it is not emotional, in it’s more fundamental nature?
The question then is not what is universal love, but what is love? And most assume they know – just ask any teenager! And they do, but they don’t.
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Object constancy is “the capacity to recognize and tolerate loving and hostile feelings toward the same object; the capacity to keep feelings centered on a specific object; and the capacity to value an object for attributes other than its function of satisfying needs. – 
